On July 3, 1930 the letters of incorporation were     finalized and formal documentation of the Church of Christ the King was in place. The land was purchased for the construction of a church to house the established community of believers known as the parish of Christ the King. Christ the King was the first Black Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ. Built by and for Black Catholics the Church was served by the Sisters of the Missionary Servannts of the Most Blessed Trinity (MSBT), the spiritual force at Christ the King. Archbishop Thomas Walsh was its feverent supporter. The group of Black Catholics with Mary Ward as their spokesperson presented a census of approproximately 300 Black Catholics in the Jersey City, Hudson County area. The names were a composite of the Black Catholicsattending Mass at various churche communities.  Some of the Black Catholic believers had begun to attend Protestant churches. The history of Christ the King intially began with a community of 12 that grew quickly to twenty with a Mass being said in a small house that was the chapel for the priest appointed to serve the Black Catholic Apostalate. These communities of beleivers were Balck Catholics some of who had    migrated north. During the Great Migration of the 1920’s, these particular Catholics were familiar with having their own parishes based on the segregated south. Having come north they were subjected to the churches in Jersey and throughtout Hudson County. On July 5, 1930 a rally was held at PS #14 to commemorate the new Negro Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King”. At 291 Forrest St. was the location of the house that was housing Mass until a church was built. The members grew so rapidly that the chapel in John E. White funeral home housed the services until the church was completed. In the first year Jeanette Thompson, a newly converted African American , led 300 people to Christ to be baptized and confirmed in the Christian Catholic faith at Christ the King.